The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 125

At noon came the Priest, and when the Governor had told him of the trick played by the Master Thief there was no end to the ridicule he cast on the Governor.

Who acts: Priest, Governor, end · What happens: come, tell, play, be, cast · To what, where: Priest, trick, ridicule, Governor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priest, Governor, end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Priest	det
5	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Governor	det
10	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 trick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trick	det
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
17	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 trick	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 Thief	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Thief	det
20	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Thief	compound
21	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 played	obl
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 ridicule	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ridicule	det
28	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cast	nsubj
30	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ridicule	acl:relcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 Governor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Governor	det
33	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cast	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Priest				noon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Governor		Priest			of the trick	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	play	participle		the trick not said here				by the Master Thief	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	no end to the ridicule			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cast	past	Governor	the ridicule not said here		the Governor			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ridicule=Theme on governor=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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